LITMUS: SHORT STORIES FROM MODERN SCIENCE
Book ID/图书代码： 03240312B52936
English Summary/英文概要： Featuring:
Sarah Hall
Sara Maitland
Stella Duffy
Kate Clanchy
Alison MacLeod
Sean O’Brien
Maggie Gee
Jane Rogers
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Adam Marek
and many more.... Features Alison MacLeod’s ‘The Heart of Denis Noble’ - shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Prize 2011and longlisted for the Times EFG Short Story Prize, 2012.
Like the creation myths they supersede, the revelations of science are seared into our collective imagination through storytelling. From Archimedes’bath to Newtonsapple, vivid accounts of scientific discovery help us understand the principles behind each theory, and add to the larger narrative of how the universe works, and how we came to be here.
This anthology draws out and distills science’s love of narrative from a wide range of scientific disciplines, weaving theory into very human stories,and delving into the humanity of theorists and experimenters as they stood on the brink of momentous discoveries: from Joseph Swan’s original light-bulb moment to the uncovering of ‘mirror neurons’lighting up empathy zones in the human brain; from Einstein’s revelation on a Bern tram, to Pavlov’s identification of personality types thanks to a freak flood in his St Petersburg lab.
Each story has been written in close consultation with scientists and historians and is accompanied by a specially written afterword, expanding on the science for the general reader.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 就像他們所取代的創世神話，科學的啟迪，通過這則故事的述說，烙入了我們共同的想像力中。從阿基米德的‘密度’澡盆到牛頓的‘重力’蘋果，生動的科學發現之旅幫助我們瞭解每個理論，背後的原則，並大量地增加了很多關於，宇宙是如何工作的和我們如何來到這裡的敘述。這部選集給科學愛好者們擬定和提取了從廣泛的科學學科，用通俗的故事詮釋複雜的科學理論，對人性的理論家和實驗者深入鑽研，如同他們站在重大新發現的邊緣：從約瑟夫•斯旺的原始燈泡的一刻到‘鏡像神經元’的照亮了人類大腦的移情區域；從愛因斯坦的伯恩電車的發明，到由於在聖彼德堡反常的實驗室引發的洪水，巴甫洛夫的人格類型識別。
每個故事都記錄了歷史學家和科學家們之間的密切交談，隨即還附有一個特別的編後語，為廣大普通讀者拓寬了科學知識。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：入圍2011年BBC國家短篇小說獎和2012泰晤士報EFG短篇故事獎的作者Alison MacLeod的‘諾布林之心’。 Rights available: Worldwide
‘The pairings work brilliantly, giving stereoscopic vision... ingenious... unfailingly
interesting.’---Book of the Week, The Independent.
‘Exquisite... delectable’---New Scientist.
‘A very alive, illuminating and good-natured collection’---The Observer.
‘An inspiring tribute to inquiring minds.’---The Guardian.
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